Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo (Paperback)

~ Mark Leiren-Young (Author)

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Product Description

Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is a collection of true-life tall tales about a rookie reporters adventures in Canadas still-very-wild West. The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery. And that was before things got weird. For a 21-year-old from Vancouver, a stint in the legendary Cariboo town was a trip to another world and another era. From the explosive opening, where Mark finds himself in a courtroom just a few feet away from a defendant with a bomb strapped to his chest, to the case of a plane without a pilot that crashed, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning aboutand learning to lovelife in a cowboy town.

About the Author

Mark Leiren-Young is a well-known screenwriter, playwright, journalist and filmmaker. Nominated for a 2007 Canadian Screenwriting Award for his first feature film, The Green Chain (which he also directed), Leiren-Young has written for other film projects, television, theatre, radio, magazines and newspapers. His comedy troupe, Local Anxiety (www.localanxiety.com), is featured on iTunes and is currently recording a new CD. For more on Mark visit www.leiren-young.ca.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co.; First edition (October 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1894974522
• ISBN-13: 978-1894974523
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,773,105 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A reporter's hilarious adventures, March 14, 2009

By	Michael Groberman (Vancouver, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This wonderful collection of true stories follows a young reporter on his first job. Moving from the city where he was raised and educated, the author finds himself in a small cowboy town where nothing is familiar. It will make you laugh and make you hope for a film version. Leiren-Young is not afraid to make fun of himself, and that is the soul of this book. Enjoy it, as I did.